hey guys welcome back thanks so much for joining me today i'm going to show you a
really cool color toning trick which i use most
of the times and i'm going to apply it to this picture
i've stopped my editing it is quarter past eight on saturday evening
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sometimes one night if i feel like it this is a picture of pippi and uh
yeah i really like it this is what it looked like when it came in so we've
already done quite a major transformation i do
have a purpose in mind for this picture the main situation was removing that
i've also moved the tree like so tree is now here so yeah
things have changed a bit i want to change the color tone so at the moment
this is very green and kind of deep and um i'm going to
show you this cool trick essentially we're in photoshop and we've
got our layers then what we want to do is go
ahead down into the adjustments in the bottom
right hand corner click on there click on curves
so you guys have already seen me do selective color adjustment
and all of the other effects that i've put on this
so i've shifted the light so instead of being more
lit on the log and these bits of pippi i've just switched the light a little
bit so that it's more and heard less on the log
i've done a basic vignette i've done a movable color
i did my core adjustments which is more colour based and overall
brightness and then i also always have my safe keeping layer which has got
bits i use and might come back to for example my original mask
from when i masked hair so the hair masking video i will link that above now
that is going to be essential for this particular adjustment but
we're not going to do that right this sec then when
we are in the curve section by the way all of the other edits that i've gone
through i will link above because they are in that big edit video
which went out the other week so we're in curves and you want to make sure that
you can see your properties so what i've done i've made
this curves adjustment layer what i'm then going to do is go into
this rgb quick tip just straight up with regards
to curves before i go in there just on the normal slider which is the
rgb red green blue all of the colors if you
click on this little hand that gives you an eyedropper that you
can move around now watch as i hover over her watch the
circle come up on this line so what that's doing is that's saying
underneath your eyedropper this is the tone that we're on this is the
brightness so that's your normal histogram in the background so i could
pick on one of the darkest areas in the whole
image and lift that up and that would focus specifically on
those tones and then i could pick a bright area and
bring that down and then it's just working on that area
now i wouldn't do this in real life so sometimes i do minor adjustments but not
this much i'm going to go back a step there
and i'm just going to go into here and i personally use blue
the most so remember that rgb red green blue is the opposite to cmy
cyan magenta yellow so red is opposite to
cyan g is opposite to magenta and uh blue is opposite to yellow so if i
add blue to a area like the shadows that removes the yellow and then
similarly if i was to remove blue from somewhere for example the highlight
that would add yellow so if i go to one of the darkest areas of the image
and i add blue did you just see the difference there
so that's the difference by just clicking and dragging with this
so what that's done is that's affecting really most of by
affecting most of the image but more so in the shadows then i could go ahead and
grab a mid-tone where some of her data is
and then i could just bring that down and that puts the yellow back there
now i'm not going to do that so to remove a point
you click on the point and then press your backspace and that removes the
point so what i'm actually going to do is i'm
going to actually grab onto my histogram up here in the highlights
and just pull that down a little bit and what that has done is that's added
some of the warmth back to the top of the image so you could move that all the
way down but i think that looks less realistic personally so i keep it kind
of like high up there and you just want to take it past if you
don't know where you are look at your input and your output
so your input and your output input is kind of
what it was most of the time output is what you're changing it to
so if the input is 199 and my output is 197
i've added two points of yellow to that situation
so you could you would always know where you are there remember 255 is pure white
so i think i'm quite happy with that so do you see how
that color shift has changed the image now so the shadows have got more blue in
the highlights have got more yellow in and then you could go
through into say for example red so you've got red r
is opposite to c from cmyk so that's cyan
so if you wanted to you could still with your hand tool selected
you could click on a shadow area and add red
or you could remove a shadow area and therefore add cyan now cyan does mess a
little bit more with the greens to be honest with you i'm just going to press
my backspace to remove that but in the mid tones you may want to add
just a little bit of red
and then in the highlights you could cool it down to make it a little bit
more eerie and add cyan
so now we've kind of gone here it looks like we've got this cool little
slightly zombie-esque filter on but really the color of her hasn't changed a
lot you could at this point then go ahead
and grab your safe keeping hair masked layer which for me is this
one here and stick that up onto your mask but
that's not really necessary so i'm going to just
undo my red ones because i don't really need them
and then you're green you've got to think right so um g green
is opposite to the second letter in cmyk so m
magenta so magenta is pink so we've got if we um go over
our greens and mainly you know highlights we've got some greens here
you could tone down the greens if you wanted to
by toning down the greens in this way you're adding magenta
so just you know bear that in mind again i don't really tend to mess with this
one i kind of stick to the blues because i think you know it gives a
really nice feel to the image so i'm just adding a
little bit more you could go ahead and add quite a lot of blue
um and then you can mask her out and that will make it look feel quite
eerie almost uh because it's quite a big transformation there and obviously you
can always go overboard and then just bring it down bring it
down on your opacity which just sort of calms it down a
little bit and if you wanted to then you could go in with your selective color
which we had in the full edit um head over to yellows which will pick up quite
a lot of the c there we go and you can change
that again c m y k so the opposite of c is r the opposite of m is g
the opposite of yellow is b so red green yellow i always forget when i say
it out loud i just can't remember all so yeah so basically
that is one of my favorite things to do to
affect tone i like to use personally the rgb curves
i'm going to carry on with my little edit now and leave you guys to it if you
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